Aircraft Designers Engineers and Notables
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Serge Dassault 1925-2018
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Serge Dassault is a French senator as well as chairman and CEO of Groupe Dassault, an aerospace, software, and media company. He inher...
Friday, 20 December 2013
Rolf Dudley-Williams 1908-1987
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Williams was born in Plymouth and educated at Plymouth College.He joined the RAF cadet scheme in 1926 and studied at the RAF college...
Sunday, 18 August 2013
George Hislop CBE 1914-2013
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George Steedman Hislop was born on February 11 1914 in Edinburgh and educated at Clydebank High School. After serving a...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Ronald Ashford CBE 1932-2008
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Ronald Ashford was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, in 1932 and attended St Edward’s School, Oxford, from where he went to the De Havillan...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Frank Piasecki 1919-2008
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Piasecki, whose family came from Poland, became only the second American to design and fly a prototype helicopter in 1943, t...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Ernest G. Stout 1913-1995
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Ernest Stout, design engineer of the Convair Company. His firm produced one of the American Navy's two V.T.O. turboprop prototypes;...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Anne Burns 1915-2001
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Champion glider pilot who risked her life investigating air disasters Anne Burns was an eminent aeronautical scientist and a cha...
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